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Hi. I messaged a while ago about gp refusing to prescribe my testosterone that was approved by london gic in 2019. I wrote asking to confirm in writing the reason why they are refusing me access to treatment as you suggested. They have written back saying “I certainly would not be competent or comfortable in prescribing androgenising hormones which had not been initiated and stabilised by a specialist in gender reassignment or endocrinology. I'm afraid I cannot prescribe sustanon nor testogel for these reasons”

Is this a god enough reason? Can i still make a complaint to the NHS board for refusing treatment. Or do i need to find a endocrinologist in my area and try them.

I also found out that i was taken of the gic list in 2019 as they said i didn’t need anymore from them so i’ve been referred back but as a completely new patient so i’m not under any specialist care as i haven’t received anything from london gic yet.

Hi Anon,

It sounds like you have been messed around by both your GP and GIC.

I would advise a formal complaint to your NHS board regarding both your GP and GIC.

This is not an acceptable reason for your GP to refuse you access to treatment. You have the go ahead from the GIC and this is all any GP needs. So email your local NHS board and complain. In the mean time write back to your GP and tell them that your hormones have been okayed by the GIC, but as they do not give your T, it is your GP that had to prescribe you it. Your GP has to work with your GIC and your GP is clearly showing they are not willing to do that.

I would then contact your GIC and ask them why they removed you from their list in 2019 and that as they did not make you aware that it is not acceptable for them to re-refer you as a new patient and therefore your original date should be honoured, as this was their mistake not yours. See what they come back with, then make a complaint if they refuse to honour your original date. This is their mistake and it should not be you that is effected by their incompetence.

Also when you contact your GIC ask for a copy of the letter they sent your GP so that you can use this to show that your GP is acting against the recommendations of the GIC.

I tried to talk to my parents about wanting to go to a gender identity clinic. My dad said “but how do you know you won’t change your mind in 4-5 years?”

Realising I’m non binary has honestly felt like as much of a relief as finding out I’m autistic. I feel like he thinks I’m just jumping on the bandwagon or something.

I wish I knew how to respond.

Level 65 - 5 Years, 5 Months On Testosterone

Well, it's been a hell of a long time since I last did this. Almost like a pandemic happened and made me forget because there were slightly more pressing matters at hand. But it's just past trans day of visibility, so figured I should provide some sort of update here.

First big change since you last saw me do this is that I got top surgery. I'm now about two and a bit years past when it happened, and it wasn't completely smooth sailing. Surgery itself went fine, but I ended up having some of my stitching come out during recovery. That's, like, a whole other story, though. It could take up several paragraphs here. I got the periareolar one done, with my chest being just on the borderline of being too big for it, but I begged them to let me have that one, as it'd always been my preferred one if possible.

I'm still trying to get on the waiting list for bottom surgery, but even trying to get through to the GIC to make progress is a nightmare right now. I don't help my case by being someone who absolutely despises making phone calls, so I only try getting in touch by email. I've asked to be put on the list, twice, but I have not received any confirmation if it's happened. Really wish that I wasn't dependent on this whole GIC system, but here we are.

Besides that, in terms of testosterone changes, things have been pretty stable for a while now. My voice hasn't gotten much deeper for like a good couple years. I am a hairy boy - saw it coming, thanks to having beheld my dad swimming, and seeing that we were three for three in having facial hair among my grandfathers and dad as well.

I am still a very physically weak man. Exercise took a backseat for a lot of the lockdown period of the pandemic, as well as me doing very little exercise post-surgery on surgeon's orders. I've really only started picking it up again relatively recently, after moving out of the house I always take these selfies in (my old room - now my dad's work from home office - still has a mirror in it). I can do only about 15 push-ups before I have to stop for a breather, as my endurance has remained atrocious. I managed to do ten bicep curls in a row per arm with dumbbells weighing 8.5kg each, but I truly just reached that point. I can do like 100 sit ups on a workout bench or 50 on the floor in mostly one go, though. And I can do a plank for like two and a half minutes on a good day. So, y'know, I'm not in terrible shape, but I could be better. I want to do bouldering more regularly, but that requires breaking my existing routine to do so, so I find it hard to go very often. At least me and my flatmate walk in to work some days.

I have gained a noticeable amount of weight, compared to my last update, but that's honestly more to do with the fact that I moved out and got a job. My flatmate works at the same place I do, so we go to work at the same time. So I actually eat breakfast every day because they'd quickly notice if I didn't. Lunch is covered by our work, but it's Deliveroo from select places, so it's not the healthiest stuff we have as options. And dinner, again, flatmate and I get back at the same time and make dinner together most nights. Might not seem like a big deal, but before I had a job and moved out, I regularly slept in and didn't have a proper meal until dinner time. So funnily enough, I'm not surprised jumping from one meal a day to three has caused weight gain.

My mental health is an open question as always. I've described myself as "one thing going wrong away from a mental breakdown", and I still think that's accurate. I'm still on meds for anxiety and depression, and I still feel noticeable effects when I forget to take them. I don't think they're going away any time soon. Top surgery has helped with some of the mental health stuff, since it's one less thing for me to worry about on a daily basis, but... y'know, bottom dysphoria still exists, and it's bad. I did make some friends during university which helped to make things tolerable when I definitely otherwise would've been alone, since I pushed a lot of my high school friends away after I dropped out. I'm not in a relationship, and not only do I have limited desire to be until I learn how to take care of myself better, but I still have no idea what anyone would see in me.

I never know how to end these things. I don't know when I'll next remember to actually do one of these, because it's been a long-ass time since I did it before. Maybe I'll do a more detailed update about my top surgery experience. Maybe the folks that follow me ain't here for this, but if my post makes it across the dashboard or in the search of another person going through it, maybe it'll be helpful.

It's kind of why I started doing this in the first place.

"That's not wise," Benjamin warns her.

Midge shakes her head. She can go home today and they're negotiating her at-home pain management. "I don't care. I don't want the heavier drugs."

"I get that there's a conflict of interest," Benjamin says, trying to be understanding. "Heavier drugs means a big chunk of your support system has to keep their distance."

"He doesn't go after the stuff I've been taking, his tolerance is too high for him to be interested," Midge explains. "I can-"

"Midge, I'm very concerned about your pain tolerance."

"I'm not. I can handle this."

"As part of your medical team I can't advise this," he says, but blows out a breath. "Okay. A week trial without the stronger stuff. If it gets too much for you, I'm prescribing the big guns. And I'll be checking in with your mother. Who still likes me better than Lenny by the way."

"He's an acquired taste," Midge jokes lightly.

"One week."

She nods. "One week."

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Bank Statements: Submitting bank statements for the past 4 months showing a minimum balance of CAD 10,000 (or the equivalent in your home currency) is often accepted.

Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC): A letter from a financial institution confirming a GIC with a minimum value of CAD 10,000 can serve as proof of financial resources.

Scholarship or Financial Aid: A letter from your school stating that you have been awarded a scholarship or financial aid covering your tuition and living expenses is another form of income proof.

Employment Letter: If you plan to continue working while studying, a letter from your employer stating your intent and income can be considered.

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They get to take the NHS to court over trans healthcare waiting times hel yeah

Hey after fucking 8 years on a waiting list I finally had my first 2 appointment with the Gender Identity Clinic. I had my top surgery last year privately thanks to some amazing monetary support from mainly 3 close family members but also from a whole lot of people I barely knew or didn't know at all.

But now I'm finally going on T, am getting speech therapy and also going to join a enby group.

Still a few months of referrals and blood tests but I'll be on T by the end of 2023 I am excited. It is just a low dose but there's lot I'm looking forward to.

I'm wondering anyone who has been/is on T would be willing to tell me their best thing about being on T?

Like what was the best change for you?

What were you most looking forward to?

What was something unexpected?

Is there anything you wish you had been told or warned about?

I'm SCREAMING. This is the least co-operative form I've ever had to deal with. I'm gonna have to copy the word, circle it in paint or something, then paste it in???? And the empty check boxes refuse to be filled or deleted LOL. For the love of Jod...

The NHS have you waiting seven years for gender shit, then torment you with this...

Me, having a blood test: Could you just send the results to me in an unencrypted email and I'll pass it along.

Phlebotomist: Oh don't you want me to send it right over?

Me: Yeah of course, but every time I have a blood test I've had to send it over myself so it's easier just to get you to send them to me.

Phleby: That's terrible, sorry! No I will absolutely send this straight to the GIC, so don't worry about it. 100% I will.

Me: Okay...

GIC, 4 weeks later: Hey so we haven't received your blood test results yet.

Hey, wanted to make sure you guys know that the NRGDS (gender clinic for the North in Newcastle) has decided to temporarily pause new admissions to their waitlist with no known date of when new referrals will be accepted again. Its effective immediately as of today (25th August 2023). A full statement can be found on their referrals sections of their webpage

Thanks for sharing.

20/01/23

Last week I took a bold step and showed my key worker an entry in my diary where I wrote about chest dysphoria and wishing I could have top surgery (I’ve wished I could have it for years, even before I realised I was nonbinary). I’m feeling especially dysphoric at the moment because I’m at a higher weight than I have been for a while and my body feels softer and more feminine (despite trying to restrict weight hasn’t budged - is my body broken?). She was really understanding about it and said she’s known people who have had it done. Honestly coming out as nonbinary has been like opening Pandora’s box and like all the stuff that’s been in my brain associated with it is just pouring out now.

This week I did more research on it. It will cost over £8000 privately or I can go on a waiting list for an NHS GIC for at least 5 years after which I may or may not be accepted for surgery.

Anyone have any experience of taking the NHS route? I can’t really afford to go privately.

so much of this documentary series is just a searing indictment against the british health system’s (and by extension britain’s) ways of approaching trans people -- the transphobia before her surgery of course, but also the bigotry against sex work (one of the biggest strikes against Julia Grant was that she had been a sex worker), the fatphobia over and over, the classism, and the violence after surgery when she was completely abandoned by the healthcare system and learned 14 years later that they had given her incorrect information about hormones that was affecting her bones and her weight

and then versus that the mainly glanced at mutual aid -- the conversation she has with a ftm transsexual in which they share ideas about what they want, and her comment that she’s talked with other trans women before, the description of her life after surgery in the queer scene, and the sex shop that catered to tvs and ts’ in terms of everything from clothes to trying to find alternate ways of assisting trans people to access care, although that care can only be expensive (just like today), and the conversations she has with trans people there -- and then more in the final episode where the bar she opens is queer

the lines drawn from 1979 to 1999 to 2022 in everything from cost to paternalistic pathologisation when trans people are yelling for informed consent to the overlapping violence against fat trans people, working class trans people, and generally trans people who aren’t considered “attractive” enough (which the documentary doesn’t go deeply into, but which we know also includes disabled trans people and trans people of colour)

and even before that, watching the interview from 1973 and seeing that there’s barely a difference from then to now either and the small changes that have been “allowed” aren’t just insufficient, but actively cover up all the ways its in some ways worse (gender affirming care partially falling under the NHS, but still being through the GICs and their ideas of how to “prove” someone is trans enough, the GRC which was barely sufficient when it was first created in 2004 and is all but useless now, more people being technically allowed to transition, but the system drowning in queues and it’s even more expensive now than it was then....) 

and knowing that there’s all these fantastic activists and thinkers and doers who have built these wonderful ways of being and living since forever, and yet we’re still bound by this post-war medicalised model (full of cis people who don’t even know what a GIC is, never mind the history of them, and certainly wouldn’t deign to read a text by trans people)